For today:
- Quiz #1 (on Weeks 2 & 3)
- Jay Epstein, "Hollywood's Reality: TV," Adweek, Aug 8, 2011.
- Interview with Chuck D and Hank Shocklee, "How Copyright Law Changed Hip Hop," (2004)
- Kembrew McLeod, "Consumption and Intellectual Property," The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, ed. George Ritzer (2006).
For further reading and research:
- Freedom of Expression: Resistance and Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property (film)
- Aaron Swartz, "Who Writes Wikipedia?"
- Lawrence Lessig on Free Culture (2002)
- Lawrence Lessig's last speech on Free Culture (2008)
- World Intellectual Property Organization
- "They Say That I Stole This" - Audio recording of a 2010 conversation between Girl Talk, Hank Shocklee, and Duke Law Professor, James Boyle. Recorded and broadcasted via National Public Radio's On the Media show. A transcript of the conversation is here.
- Steve Albini, “The Problem with Music," originally published in Maximum RocknRoll, April 1992.
Alternative Media - Jan 31
For today:
- Read Zack Furness, "Alternative Media: The Art of Rebellion," in Media Literacy: A Reader, eds. Donaldo Macedo and Shirley Steinberg (Peter Lang, 2007), pp. 189-196.
For further reading & research:
- IWW Poster Print from 1911 (radical politics)
- Black Panther image (radical politics)
- Iconoclast (underground press)
- Pirate Radio History (radio...duh)
- Zines (self-publishing) & POC Zine Project tour in Pgh
- Prometheus Radio Project (community-based, low power radio)
- Media Education Foundation (media literacy and education)
- Lakota Media Project (community media production)
- Youth Advocacy Media Project at Carlow University (community media)
- Democracy Now! (news)
- The Listening Post (news analysis)
- Dischord Records (pioneering independent US punk label)
